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Re: CHAT: minimal pair of English Interdentals

From:Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...>
Date:Saturday, October 26, 2002, 22:37
--- taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>
wrote:
> * Jake X said on 2002-10-24 23:02:06 +0200 > > ["teeth" vs. "to teethe"] > > Does anyone here speak a dialect which has both of > those > > pronbounced the same? > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > > *pictures pronouns bouncing down the stairs* What a > lovely word!
Actually, pronoun bouncing is a phenonemon of certain Grabow Iss. dialects, where pronouns are bounced from front to back of the verb in subordinate situations. Padraic.
> > > t.
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